Bottle-washing machine.



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BOTTLEl WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION `FILED DIEU. 11, 1908.

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APPLICATION FILED DEO. 11, 1906..

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BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters'latent;

Application filed December 11, 1906. Serial 1\To.`3417',22?7.V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. FELT, a citizen of the `United States, residing at Chlcago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and'useful Improvements in Bottle-VVasliing Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact specification. f

This invention relatesto bottle washers, and more particularly to the part thereof especially intended for soaking thebottles, which has means for prolonging the travel of the bottles through one ormore compartments of soaking or soaking and rinsing water while being held in crates 'or baskets.

The primary object ofthe invention is t0 'provide improved and simplemeans for effectually advancing the bottles through the soaking solutiong" another .object of the invention being to have improved' means of such a character that the operation of the machine for thus advancingthe Vottles may be continuous, as contradistinguished from an intermittent movement. i

Vith a view to the attainment of these ends and the accomplishment of certain other objects which will hereinafter appear, the invention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction', combination and arrangement of parts which will first be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and then more particularly pointed out in the claims. y

In the drawings,f-Figure 1 is an end elevation of a machine embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section thereof. Fig; 4t is a vertical longitudinal section of the machine showing the inlet end. Fig. 5 is a similar section showing the outlet end. Fig. G is a diagrammatic plan view of the conveyer and a crate-way with some vcrates thereon, as hereinafter described. Fig. 7 is a diagrammatic end view thereof showing the inlet end. And Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the outlet end.

1 is a tank which contains the water or solution in which the bottles are soaked. Ordinarily this tank is divided into a number of compartments containing different vsoaking or soaking and rinsing solutions; 'the first usually being Warm water to temper the bottles; the second, strong suds or some cleansing solution; and the third, rinslng wat-er or solution; and so on, for as many compartments and different solutions as may be desired. In the present example,

the tank is divided by partitions 2, 3, into three chambers or compartments 4,y 5, 6. Mounted in the tank 1 is ashaftf, which preferably extends rthroughout; its entire length, and bin-fact projects a littlegbeyond ratentea Dee. a, 1era.

each of the ends, Jand secured to. this shaft andrevolving in the compartments 4t, 5, 6,'

are spiders 8, 9, ,10, each having a plurality of spokes, as indicated in Fig. 1, between which are mounted the tracks orfways 'on which the baskets. or crates before mentioned 4slide with the bottles.

Owing to the presence of the partit-ions l2 y and inthe tank 1,\it,is necessary that the.

tracks or ways for the crates be made sectional or divided at the points wherel the partitions occur, in order that the spiders may revolve in their respective coinpartments without interference from the partitions. These sectional ways or tracks for the spider 8 are indicated at 11; those for the spider 9, at 12; and those for the spider 10, at 13; and all of these `tracks or ways are preferably in the forni of channel-bars, ywith their hollow sides turned toward each otherA as shownin Fig. 1, so as to receive and support the projecting edges of a plate 14 which constitutes the upper member of the bottle crate or basket having' apertures 15 for the y reception ofthe body-portions of the bottles, `the lower member of the basket or crate loeing in the form of a platel suspended from the plate 14 by hangers 17, and provided with apertureslS for the necks of the bottles.

i With the bottles thus arranged in theirI `crates oi" baskets and the baskets supported in the channel-bar ways, the spiders may be 'revolved and the bottles thereby submerged and carried through the solution inthe variouscompartments, each spider lcarrying fas many of tlie crates as may be accommodatedv on the crate wa=ys,.wliose number is of course limited only by the size or diameter of the spider. In order that the bottles may not fall out of their crates when they reach an inverted position, each of the ways is pro-, vided with a bottle-retaining means consist.

ing of'longitudinal slats 19, 20, secured to arms 21, .22, which are attached to theY yspiders or to the ways thereon and hold/the slats 19 over the bottoms of the lbottles as illustrated in Fig. 1, oneof the slats 19, 20,

beingemployed for each row of bottles in the ways.

At one end ofthe shaft 7, where it pro-V jects through the tank l, isl secured a spider 23, which is similar to the others, and which is provided with tracks or ways2li, similar to the other ways already described, for the purpose of receiving the-crates or baskets from the hand ofthe operator, who places the crates between-each pair of tracks as the same come to him in 'a convenient position.

As the shaft 7 rotates, causinglthespider 23 to revolve, a projection or lug 2'5, one ofv which is formed on each of the crates and lstands upwardly therefrom as indicated in Fig. 1,comes into engagementwith the end Hight 26, of a conveyer. whichl `extends throughout the Alength of the machine, as Will Abe presently described, -an'dthis end.

flight ci uses the crate whose lug .25"is in engagement therewith to move .inwardly as the spider 23 revolves, and thus pushes the crate from the track or way on the spider 23 across the end wall of the tank 1 and onto secure by Letters Patent is:

the track or way 1l of the next spider. This conveyer just referred to consists of a series of additional flights 27, lall of which are arranged in a diagonal or inclinedc position with relation to thetracks or ways on the spiders, as clearly indicated in Fig. 6, such flights 2.7 being, in other words, like one half of an Archimedean screw. At the sides of,the tank 1, all of the flights 26, 27, of the conveyer continue downward in to theit'ank, but here they lose their .spiral formation and are simply semi-circular guides 28, 29, which are arranged in planes at right-angles tothe tracks or ways, yso that when the. lug 25 strikes the same the crate will' no longer travel longitudinally of thetank,'but will'.

simply revolve through the cleansing' or soaking solution with the spider. The purpose of this is to prolong the immersion of the crate in the soaking solution, and to prevent it from coming into collision' with the partitions in the tank, where the compartments are too narrow to permit of any forward travel after the crate has entered them. Itwill thus be seen that the flight 26 guides the lug 25 to -the right-hand side of the guide 28,`and this in turn keeps possession of it until it arrives at the right-hand side of the next fiight 27, which carries it to ways 32, similar Ato the tracks or ways on the other spiders', and 'which are of course ar ranged in lines coinciding with the tracks or ways on the other' spiders, so that the -cratesA as they slide from .the ways 13 will -readilyenter the outside'ways, whence they may beremoved by an attendant.

. The requisite rotary motion of the shaft 7 forrevolving all of the spiders and their ways maybe imparted .to .the shaft hy'a. worm-Wheel 83, from any suitable source of powerconnected to a worm 34.

In' order that the invention may be understood by those skilled. inthe art, the details of thisA embodiment thereof have been. thus specically described, but c W hat I claimas new therein and desire to l. In a machine for the purpose described, the combination ofa tank in vwhich to soak the bottles, a'series of guideslarranged at an angleto the longitudinal axis'of the tank, means for supporting .the bottles to be soaked, having means for engagement. with said. guides, and means for revolving the.

-series of bottle-holding racks; and a continuous .member extending throughout the length of the tank, the upper. portions of the member having a spiral relation, whereby as the shaft is rotated the bottles will be advanced from one-end of thetank tothe other.

In testimony whereof I have signed name to this specification, in the presence of two'subscribing witnesses, on this 5th day of December, A. vD. 1,906.

CHARLES FELT.

Vitnesses FRANCIS A. HOPKINS, CHARLES H. Snnivr. 

